Hans Jakob Oeri

Hans Jakob Oeri (16 December 1782, Kyburg - 24 February 1868, Zürich) was a Swiss portrait and history painter, draftsman and lithographer.

[1] After two years of study, he presented a self-portrait at an exhibit in Zürich and received praise from Johann Martin Usteri.

In 1809, he travelled to Russia in the company of the landscape painter, Jakob Christoph Miville, of Basel.

When Miville moved on to St.Petersburg, Oeri remained; working as a portrait painter and art teacher.

In addition to his original paintings, he made lithographs of the works of Hans Holbein the Younger, Raphael, Friedrich Overbeck, and others.